From our dog Zeus

I have a guest writer today... our dog Zeus. Well, actually it is my sister-in-law Kelly writing and pretending to be Zeus. The boys thought this was very funny - so did John and I. Kelly, Joe, Aidan and Erica have been taking great care of our precious Zeus. Seriously - maybe too good. I don't think he'll want to come home!


From Zues...
Hello to my favorite family, I miss you all very very much, especially you Matt! Sorry it took so long to respond back to you but when my foster mom, Aunt Kelly, told me that you were asking about me I wanted to respond to you myself and it took a whole week to learn to read and write.

Anyway…..Life is pretty good here in Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA. My foster family treats me well and I get a lot of attention from them and all their family and friends. Everyone tells me “oh what a great dog you are” and “you are so pretty”, I have a hard time with the last comment because after all I am a “boy” dog and the word “handsome” should be used. (just my opinion). I get to go on mini vacations to a place that Aidan and Erica call Grandpa’s house. It is a totally cool place; you have to try it out! Talk about being spoiled. This grandpa character constantly is saying “I’ll put some meat on your bones Zeus, don’t you worry” and then he will give me a piece of steak or hotdog or fish and my personal favorite…..pork chops. I think this upsets my foster mom a little bit because she is always telling “grandpa” to stop feeding me table scraps that my stomach is not used to it. Secret between me and you, my stomach is sooooo getting used to it and if foster mom really knew how much I got she would completely flip, shhhhhhhh, I have a good think going here.

One of the games I learned to play, and this is a good one let me tell you, is I get up around 1:30 or so in the morning and go and wake your Aunt Kelly up so that she can let me outside to “take care of business”, hey a dog’s got to pee right? Then, just when she falls back to sleep, get this, I go and wake her again to let me out, she grumbles a little but she does it. The best part though, I will do this two or three more times and she gets up every time!! I’m laughing just telling you about it, sometimes she can be so gullible it cracks me up. I think I might have to be a little more cautious, she is staring to catch on.

Don’t worry, your aunt Kelly loves having me around and she tells me so all the time especially because your Uncle Joe is still working midnights. I don’t know why this is comforting to her, what does she expect me to do, it’s not like I know karate or something. All I do when someone I don’t know approaches the house is bark at the top of my lungs and jump around and make all kinds of commotion and for some strange reason my foster mom praises me for it and tells me “you’re a good boy Zeus”. You humans are a little tough to figure out.

Well it is time for my mid morning nap, where I can reminisce about my early morning nap and dream about my late morning nap, so I have to wrap things up. I think about you guys every day and I can’t wait to see you, hopefully when you come home in June!! Please don’t worry about me, I’m doing just great.

Love and Licks to all of you,
Zeus